Invisible Man (Bloom's Guides (Hardcover)) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791097900 ISBN 13: 9780791097908

Publisher: Chelsea House Publications, 2008

Synopsis

Each title features:
- Concise critical excerpts that provide a scholarly overview of each work
- "The Story Behind the Story," detailing the conditions under which the work was written
- A biographical sketch of the author, a descriptive list of characters, an extensive summary and analysis, and an annotated bibliography.

About this title

About the Author

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of 30 books, including Shelley's Mythmaking (1959), The Visionary Company (1961), Blake's Apocalypse (1963), Yeats (1970), A Map of Misreading (1975), Kabbalah and Criticism (1975), Agon: Toward a Theory of Revisionism (1982), The American Religion (1992), The Western Canon (1994), and Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection (1996). The Anxiety of Influence (1973) sets forth Professor Bloom's provocative theory of the literary relationships between the great writers and their predecessors. His most recent books include Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (1998), a 1998 National Book Award finalist, How to Read and Why (2000), Genius: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds (2002), Hamlet: Poem Unlimited (2003), Where Shall Wisdom be Found (2004), and Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine (2005). In 1999, Professor Bloom received the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Criticism. He has also received the International Prize of Catalonia, the Alfonso Reyes Prize of Mexico, and the Hans Christian Andersen Bicentennial Prize of Denmark.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea House Publications
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0791097900
• ISBN 13: 9780791097908
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 83
• Editor: Bloom Sterling Professor Of Humanities Harold